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Parenting truly is a solemn responsibility. For a parent there should be nothing so vital, of such great concern, as the well-being of his or her children.

Where do we find peace? Is it something outside or inside us? We generally conceive of two separate states of peace. One is the tranquillity we sometimes discover when we withdraw from what we call the outside world and spend some time alone in quiet contemplation.

What can we do if a healing does not yet appear even though we have begun to perceive the spiritual fact that in reality all is well? If pain and discordant conditions continue, it may be time to deal more specifically with mortal mind and its claims. Since immortal Mind, God, is infinite and the only reality, its supposed opposite, mortal mind, can only be a false belief.

Do you sometimes find yourself working earnestly as a Christian Scientist to put something right that has gone wrong, or to make an ill person into a well person? I know I do. Then I'm brought up with a start and realize that I've been treating discord as if it were real and trying to change or heal it.

A friend and I had got into a very heated argument. It was rapidly escalating.

To a greater or lesser degree, all of us are exposed to the use of techniques that would manipulate us mentally. Their lighter efforts range from sophisticated attempts to persuade us to buy things— often things we don't want or need—to meddling with our thoughts from well-meant but misdirected motives.

There's a tendency in human nature to store things. And it's the same with the false beliefs that suggest we are material beings subject to limitation, sickness, and death.

" Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men . " Matt.

In a class by itself From a branch church in Massachusetts Is the Wednesday evening testimony meeting a second-class meeting for our branch church? This question, surprising as it may seem, was the hard question our church asked of itself. We are a smaller branch church with a very active membership and, as many have said, a comparatively active Wednesday testimony meeting.

Sometimes one encounters confusion in people's minds as to what spiritualization of thought means. They speak of spiritual blood, spiritual heart, spiritual bones—in fact, they may take the whole physique and try to plant it in a spiritual setting, where this same organization would function as on earth, but harmoniously.